Multilingual, Efficient and Easy NLP Processing with IXA Pipeline

IXA pipeline is a modular set of Natural Language Processing tools (or pipes) which provide easy access to NLP technology. It aims at lowering the barriers of using NLP technology both for research purposes and for small industrial developers and SMEs by offering robust and efficient linguistic annotation to both researchers and non-NLP experts. IXA pipeline can be used “as is” or exploit its modularity to pick and change different components. This paper describes the general data-centric architecture of IXA pipeline and presents competitive results in several NLP annotations for English and Spanish.